{"id":937,"date":"2015-09-21T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=937"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:40","slug":"l-h-russ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/l-h-russ\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSS, L.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L. H. RUSS<\/strong> was born in Lewisburg, Tenn., March 3, 1843.\u00a0 His father, <strong>James Russ<\/strong>, was a printer and publisher.\u00a0 He came to Bedford County in 1847 and established a newspaper and continued to publish papers until his death in 1869.\u00a0 The mother was <strong>Margaret E. Laird<\/strong>.\u00a0 She died in 1857.\u00a0 Our subject was reared in Shelbyville and learned the printer&#8217;s trade.\u00a0 In 1869 he, with a brother, established the Shelbyville Commercial and published that paper one year.\u00a0 He then engaged in the grocery business a short time.\u00a0 From 1870 to 1873, he was not settled in any regular business.\u00a0 In 1873 he established the wagon and buggy manufactory which he yet runs.\u00a0 He manufactures the New South wagons, buggies, carriages, etc.\u00a0 He has a stock of about $6,000, and does about $12,000 annual business.<\/p>\n<p>He was married in October, 1869, to <strong>Theodosia H. Hobbs<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>George W. and Sarah Hobbs<\/strong>, residents of this county.\u00a0 Five children have been born to this union, three of whom are now living: <strong>George H., James L. and Lucy E<\/strong>.\u00a0 Those who died were <strong>Harry L. and Thomas B.<\/strong>\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Russ are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and Mr. Russ is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F.\u00a0 He was one of the &#8220;boys in gray,&#8221; serving in Forrest&#8217;s escort from 1863 till December, 1864, when he was captured and held a prisoner till the close of the war.\u00a0 He was fourth corporal of the escort.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. H. RUSS was born in Lewisburg, Tenn., March 3, 1843.\u00a0 His father, James Russ, was a printer and publisher.\u00a0 He came to Bedford County in 1847 and established a newspaper and continued to publish papers until his death in 1869.\u00a0 The mother was Margaret E. Laird.\u00a0 She died in 1857.\u00a0 Our subject was reared &#8230; <a title=\"RUSS, L.H.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/l-h-russ\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RUSS, L.H.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3100,3101,3099,3098,3102,3105,3097,3103,3096,3104,3106],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-hobbs-george-w","tag-hobbs-sarah","tag-hobbs-theodosia","tag-laird-margaret-e","tag-russ-george-h","tag-russ-harry-l","tag-russ-james","tag-russ-james-l","tag-russ-l-h","tag-russ-lucy-e","tag-russ-thomas-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}